Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012
Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2013 Womens Prize for Fiction

Simply exceptionalI envy anyone who hasnt yet read it Daily Mail

A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror Independent on Sunday
With this historic win for Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes, as well as being the first to win with two consecutive novels. Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible rise of Thomas Cromwell as he contrives the destruction of Anne Boleyn.

By 1535 Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn. But the split from the Catholic Church has left England dangerously isolated, and Anne has failed to give the king an heir. Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Negotiating the politics of the court, Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Annes final days.

An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists.

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This is a bloody story about the death of Anne Boleyn, but Hilary Mantel is a writer who thinks through the blood. She uses her power of prose to create moral ambiguity and the real uncertainty of political life She has recast the most essential period of our modern English history; we have the greatest modern English prose writer reviving possibly one of the best known pieces of English history Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012

Simply exceptional I envy anyone who hasnt yet read it Sandra Parsons, Daily Mail

In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIIIs right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read. A staggering achievement Sarah Crompton, Sunday Telegraph

Succeeds brilliantly in every particle its an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives Spectator

Wolf Hall was a tour de force, but its sequel is leaner, more brilliant, more shocking than its predecessor Erica Wagner, The Times

Picks up the body parts where Wolf Hall left off literary invention does not fail her: she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever Margaret Atwood, Guardian

Mantel in the voice of Cromwell is inspired. When she is in full flow as a novelist, creating scenes and inventing dialogue, she is more convincing than rendering a recorded scene from history Philippa Gregory, Sunday Express

Dont think you can start this book whenever you feel like it plan ahead, as, once started, its impossible to escape its grip, and until its finished, you wont get any sleep Country Life

Author Bio

Hilary Mantel is the author of fourteen books, including A Place Of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up The Ghost, and the short-story collection The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher. Her two most recent novels, Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up The Bodies, have both been awarded the Man Booker Prize - an unprecedented achievement.